Our presentation will mainly focus on WIPO Translate, a homemade market-leading translation software that is currently used to translate patent texts on our search engine Patentscope.

 

The first version of WIPO patent translation engine was publically available on Patentscope in the early 2012. WIPO was an early adopter of Neural Machine Translation (in production in 2016).

WIPO Translate is publically accessible as part of Patentscope (https://patentscope.wipo.int/)

 

Originally created to translate patent documents, WIPO Translate can also be adapted and customized to other technical domains. This system is now installed and used in various United Nations agencies, as well as in patent offices. It is used internally for helping the translation of patent applications as well as for goods and services descriptions and industrial application texts.

 

A dedicated team (Advanced Technology Applications Center) has been created in WIPO to explore and develop machine learning applications in the Intellectual Property field. In addition to translation, we will present shortly other AI related activities developed at WIPO: image classification and similarity, automatic patent classification and speech recognition for WIPO conferences (https://www.wipo.int/s2t/) .

 

More information on WIPO AI tools:

https://www.wipo.int/about-ip/